Sticky fly-paper.



PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

0. MAU'SERT STICKY FLY PAPER. APPLICATION FILED APR. 6, 1905.

* UNITED STATES PATENT oFFICE.

STICKY- FLY-PAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1305.

Application filed April 6, 1905. Serial No. 254,160.

To all whom it Wmy concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO MAI'isERT, a citizen of Germany, residing in the cit and county of San Francisco and State 0 California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fly-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fly-paper, and especially in fly-paper having a sticky surface acting as a lure for flies and other insects.

The object of my invention is to provide a blank for sticky fly paper which can be folded into attractive shape and stood on shelves, counters, and elsewhere and which being covered with adhesive will prove an efficient lure, having a considerable exposed surface, and which blank when so folded may be easily handled without soiling the hands and can be compressed into a small compass for purposes of shipment and the like.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the blank. Fig. 2 is a plan view of pyramid. Fig. 3 is a side view of same.

A represents a blank so cut and creased as to be easily folded into pyramidical or conical form, as shown in Fig. 3. As here shown, the blank A is cut substantially in the shape of a sector whose apex is the apex of the subsequently-completed pyramid. This sector is radially creased, as at 2, to form a plurality of triangular spaces 3 of e ual area and cor responding to the number of sides of the pyramid. The outer perimeter of the sector is slitted uniformly, as at 4, in the line of the creases 2, and the wider parts of the portions 3 of the blank bounded by the creases 2 are transversely creased from the inner ends of the slits 4, as at 5, to form the trapezoidal portions 6, which when the blank is folded, asin Fig. 2, rovide an outwardly-extended base-flange f dr the pyramid. One side of the blank is left with a lateral flap portion 7, tapered at top and bottom, so as to fold inside the pyramid. This flap is adapted to be secured by gum, paste, or other means to the under side of that triangular portion 3 which is at the opposite side of the blank when the pyramid is formed.

The pyramid may be of any desired number of sides, and when set up the parts 6 are.

turned out like a flange to rest on the table or counter on which the device may be used. If preferred, the triangular vacancies remaining between the adjacent ends of the several flange portions 6 may be filled in by a small bridge-piece or dart 8 of paper or tin. This will give a finished and substantial appearance to the pyramid.

The flange being left without any adhesive will afiord a good finger-hold, besides operating as a dam against the sticky material with which the major part of the sides of the pyramid are pasted and which, particularly in warm weather, has a tendency to run. If preferred, a limited area, as 9, around the apex of the pyramid may also be left without any adhesive, so that in opening out or setting up a pyramid it can be handled without soiling the fingers by taking hold of the apex and the flange 6.

In practice the blanks are cut and creased in the manner described, one side of the blank folded over and secured to the gummed flap 7, an adhesive lure applied to the outside of the folded blank between the portions 6 and 9 and in this form are ready to be set u Ip into pyramids for iminediate use or to be olded flat or knocked down and packed tightly one upon another for shipment.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. A sheet of sticky fly-paper folded into substantially pyramidal form.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible sheet folded into pyramidal form and having an adhesive applied to its exterior surface.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible sheet folded into a hollow permanentlyinclosed structure having an adhesive applied to its exterior surface except at its upper and lower edges, said upper and lower edges which are unsupplied with adhesive providing a suitable finger-hold.

4. A pyramidal structure of paper having an external adhesive coating, and having a non-adhesive integral base-flange substantially as described.

5. A blank for sticky fly-paper, of substantially sector shape and foldable into pyramidal form, said blank radially creased in accordance with the sides of the pyramid and slitted at the perimeter on the lines of the ing creased crosswise and proximate to the IO creases, to enable the blank to be creased mner ends of said slits.

crosswise to form a self-supporting base, and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set means to unite the opposite edges of the my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- 5 blank. nesses.

6. A blank for sticky fly-paper, substan- OTTO MAUSERT. tially sector shape,said blank radially creased, Witnesses: said blank radially slitted at the perimeter S. H. NOURSE,

on the lines of the creases, and said blank be- J menu 0. BRODIE. 

